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Location:

  • Türkiye, Akçalıuşağı
  • geo:37.688221,36.098373
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -2000~ / -1600~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=78280

Annotations

Hurama in Hittite texts Hurma was the capital of Hurama Kingdom.It was on an important route for trade route from Syria and Mesopotamia. In 18th century BC Hurma was an important merchant stop after the Euphrates (according to Old Assyrian sources). 

See:

  1. Gojko Barjamovic, Thomas Chaney, Kerem Coşar, Ali Hortaçsu, Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 3, August 2019, Pages 1455–1503, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz009
  2. Joost Blasweiler,The kingdom of Hurma during the reign of Labarna and Hattusili. Part I, Arnhem 2020

Nearby

Watchtower (12 km)

Watchtower

Undefined castle (14 km)

Undefined castle

Uğurlubağ Kalesi (15 km)

Uğurlubağ Castle


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